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The church of St Mary dominates the surrounding area. The town originally developed because of the local weavers, and also as a market town.

This marvellously detailed view of the High Street before it was transformed into a pedestrian precinct was taken from the first floor of the Cock Hotel.

The lane past Fountain Cottage leads to the quiet surroundings of All Saints' Church.

In contrast with the western side of the Wirral Peninsula, the towns and villages of the east have become one continuous conurbation because of their proximity to the River Mersey and Liverpool.

Obviously still viable in these photographs, Southport Pier was closed in the 1990s; it was demolished and rebuilt at a total cost of £7 million, and was reopened in 2002.

The only set of traffic lights in Kettering coped with a trickle of traffic.

Here is a wonderfully atmospheric shot, typical of the best of late 19th-century photography, illustrating the beautiful view from which Belvoir derives its name.

This is the top of Market Street, adjacent to Piccadilly.

Ebbw Vale was one of the first steelworks. Bessemer steel was produced here as early as 1866, and this process continued until the last Bessemer blow in 1962.

This view up towards top church takes in about half of it. The prominence of the church tower is emphasised well.

It is possible that one of them lay on the site of Ware Mill, later part of the factory of Allen & Hanbury.

This is the bottom or western end of Westgate.

The imposing west front of the Abbey, following the completion of its restoration thirty years before.

The monks referred to in the village's name are the monks of Canterbury, who were lords of the manor and patrons of the living.

In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.

The Late 19th to the Early 20th Century Forget six counties overhung with smoke Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse

This celebrated port prospered as a result of its natural deep-water anchorage. The quay was constructed in 1640 and soon after Falmouth was granted the status of Britain's Mail Packet station.

'The First and Last Refreshment House in England' doubtless took full advantage of the captive audience.

Robins Brothers, not content with filling their windows to bursting, have extended out on to the pavement and into the road.

Stirling Castle, sited on a precipitous hill 420 feet high, has been intimately bound up with the fortunes of Scotland from the 12th century until the union of the crowns in 1603.

Situated on the high downlands where the flowing waters of St John's Spring become the source of the River Frome, Evershot had as its vicar in the 18th century the poet George Crabbe.

This area of the fairground was redeveloped and incorporated into the King's Gardens, which were opened by HM King George V in 1913.

They halted on the banks of the Exe in about 50AD and founded the town of Isca. The West Country see was transferred to the safety of the Exeter city walls in 1049.

The Thames is not sufficiently wide at Oxford for the conventional kind of race in which one boat, known as an eight, overtakes another.